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A COMPREHENSIVE WRITING ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES CURRICULUM AT THE SOPHOMORE/JUNIOR
LEVEL

The Colonnade Program calls for WKU to build on the first-year writing and human communication experience
with a sophomore/junior level Foundations course organized around a Writing In the
Disciplines (WID) framework. The General Education Review Task Force that developed
the Colonnade Program espoused the WID approach as a pedagogically-sound way to develop students' skills
in written expression within the context of their disciplinary training and writing
conventions.

E&A will operationalize this commitment, while strengthening the progressive development
of students' evidence-gathering, sense-making, and argumentation skills. Specific
initiatives are anticipated to include:

Revising the ENG 300 curriculum to include a combination of mixed-majors sections
and, for selected departments/colleges, single-discipline sections of ENG 300;

Exploring development of selected ENG 300 sections that are linked with specific majors
courses;

Encouraging and supporting development of writing-intensive and writing-enriched courses
in the majors;